The Woodstock Dining Room

The Woodstock Dining Room, May 30, 1929

We've always avoided the subject of The Woodstock Dining Room because of a lack of material ‒ no promotion, no menus, and, especially, no photos. This was rather awkward as it was billed as one of the three restaurants the complex offered.

Then a pair of pictures came our way. They were identified as the "Prospect House dining room," but didn't fit the restaurant in Prospect Tower. They didn't have the same type of ceiling, or light sconces, or stained-glass windows, or wainscotting lining the walls.

A close-up of a table for two brings these features out more distinctively. When compared with the minuscule ads that exist, below, there's no doubt that these photos depict The Woodstock's Dining Room.
 

These ads, despite their gritty quality, show sconces on wall, stained-glass windows, and wainscotting and cane-backed chairs galore.

Finally, we offer this portrait of a melon plate with two more clues; first, the FFF initials embroidered on the tablecloth, indicating this was a Fred F. French restaurant. . .

. . . and then, there's the newspaper headline, LINDBERGHS UNREPORTED; STATIC BLAMED [detailing how the newlywed couple travelled incognito due to electronic interference.] The real news was the date it was published ‒ May 30, 1929 ‒ one month after The Woodstock's opening. The perfect time to get a photographer in for a few pictures.

After that, the trail runs cold. We don't think the restaurant lasted very long. We know that it reopened as the Club Room ‒ devoted to various hobbies and open to all Woodstock residents ‒ in 1945. In 1951, changes to the street outside meant the former dining room was now somewhere on the second floor. But where exactly, no one knows. 

Can anyone add anything to the saga?